INSANE Progress After ONLY 2 YEARS in Poker | What's His Secret?

[@culu37]

Cool vid - he’s obviously really damn strong player -… but it does come off as a bit lame to cherry pick hands where you made the right decision every time lol

[@founik]

Hugh sounds like somebody who knows his shit pretty well. So yeah, I'm up for more videos with Hugh.

[@Seatek_Ark]

Just watched the intro, I have a very similar start to Hugh, played MTG professionally for a long time, always wanted to play poker, but my state was very restrictive on it. I decided to hit up Vegas as the start of my country "where to live" tour and did way better in tournaments than I thought possible. Got an apt, then a house here. I've been in Vegas 10 months, 80k in tournament winnings, 10k in cash profits, about 45k in profit overall. The game has a lot of crossover w/ limited game theory activities such as MTG

[@LegitTrickshotsHD]

Dude this Hugh guy really knows what hes talking about. Hella deep understanding of the game and brings exceptional vibes to the channel. More content with this dude would be great. You have just gained a sub g

[@guilhermegalvao6381]

Hi Pete. Could you record a video about how to study poker in the long term? Especially how to store your heuristics/conclusions in an organized way that you can review later. I use One Note to try to organize my study, but I feel like I'm not doing it efficiently.

[@paulgibbons-keynotespeaker]

When thinking about the AKo call versus river jam last hand. Part of my thought process includes "I get here with overpairs with a club and much stronger hands" - are we saying, in effect, that absolute hand strength doesn't matter here - villain has pure air, or nuts so AK functions as well as QQ (except we unblock his AQ/AJ that he is turning into a bluff)... I think this reasoning affects my river call freq "I have better hands to call with"

[@SeanC_BKK]

Maybe the lesson is on the Turn...OB the Turn B105/B133 and pool is overfolding TT by +15-20%==> Sml Bet/Lrg Bet

[@demijade5977]

Hugh’s progress is so inspiring! Motivation to keep trying, would love to see more from him

[@MrMagnanimity]

Imho the 8s7d hand smb vs bb would work against a studied reg, but a studied reg is almost never going to take this line with these sizings as they point out with regards to PF 3.1 bb. I play 200, 500, and 1000 and the recs differ little in these pools. I have absolutely no faith a rec is folding 2 pair here, I highly doubt they are taking this line with one pair. I think they often worry they won't get paid when they have value, so the nuts and other flushes are squarely in range. I think the nut flush blocker is going to wind up taking this line often because recs make polarization mistakes galore in the smb, they tend to over cbet and be pretty mergy overall, and will pure bet hands like AsJh and then barrel the turn with the fliush draw. Vs a rec I would fold turn as well, and I think the river ship is lighting money on fire. Any value they deem good enough to vbet isn't folding enough, I think we got lucky here.

[@michaelb4090]

The correct play suits or not is to bet fold and making a check like that is player depended but I get it n1!!

[@johngriller4997]

Yes, this makes infinitely more sense. He even said that if he bets that spot he’s bet calling!!!? Like what? That goes against his own logic that he thinks people are nutted in that spot, so how the hell can he justify a bet call after preferring a check back in the first place? Makes 0 sense. I get a Button clicky feeling from this player

[@jaiden2974]

I think this first hand is bad. I agree with how blocking the backdoor flush floats is bad, but you bet 1/3otf, which means most club Qx, and basically almost all Qx in general, have backdoor straight draws plus overcards. JJ 4bets at some frequency, QQ likely does almost always, and TT folds the turn at some frequency. He has literally no combos that he arrives here with 100% of the time that are boats. The 7 basically nullifies tons of combos as well, since he has zero boat combos that interact with the 7. Additionally, what do you bluff here? on a board where you have supreme range advtg partially because of your AK. You now have less combos of value and are giving up river a lot to lose to Jx combos. Absolutely nitty check back, and I think it’s really cool you were correct, but there is no way in hell this can ever be “good”, or a check back that is +EV. Usually like your stuff, but i am one of the people who “is clicking off the video now”

[@gunther7037]

Obviously checking here is +EV, I think what you're trying to argue is that betting is higher EV than checking. I wouldn't dismiss it but I would argue it is not a nitty check back as both check and small river bet are probably close in EV, because one pair on TJQ boards is probably a bit overfolded and underbluffed as a 3bet caller.

[@jaiden2974]

@@gunther7037Yeah, I should have clarified by +EV i meant it’s higher EV to bet than to check. Also for all the reasons I listed, this is definitely a nitty check back. He still has hands that call, and this dude is likely not turning JT into a bluff shove here

[@petrosfalieris8700]

@@jaiden2974 Are you betting turn with TJs?

[@johngriller4997]

Absolutely agree. The check back is horrendously disgusting, without being results oriented. It loses 1.2bbs or 122bb/100 according to the solver. So in order for this to be ok, he needs to show mass data of that spot vs that pool that says they massively overfold everything and only call with better, and then he also needs to show that spot where he obviously goes nuts every-time with bluffs bc of said overfolds that recoups all of the ev loss and then some, to justify the check back. If he doesn’t already have this data/knowledge, then he’s hemorrhaging ev and massively owning his own WR.

[@jaiden2974]

@@petrosfalieris8700No, not for this sizing. I was referring to villain turning JTs into a bluff though, because it’s a reasonable call on the turn

[@Mike-y4f4f]

Hugh seems like he deserves to play the game

[@johndecorato6399]

First hand was such a cool check back. Hugh’s reasoning makes a ton of sense and really shows a deep understanding. Such great motivation to improve my game.

[@masticloxpoker1006]

How can you improve your game, when you do not even deserve to play it

[@taav2518]

Nice talking guys, tks a lot!

[@olivercamm2524]

I want more Hugh!!

[@PhonyBologna]

I am curious about small 4b sizing OOP when polar. Generally when we are polar we want to use larger sizes, case in point 3b from the BB OOP, versus a linear small 3b range in the SB. Going smaller we are asking them to continue with ~75% of their range since they're IP for nearly a min raise. I think from an exploitative POV the smaller size is hard to jam over due to the risk/reward ration, and potentially people under defending vs such a good price. I'd imagine the small 4b gets at least 50% folds, all the garbage polar stuff folds like T7o, K8o, etc, and all the 'real' hands like A4s, KJs call. However, from a theoretical perspective it doesn't accomplish much. I imagine a min 5b versus this min 4b would work to 33 with offsuit Ax AK+, noticed it works pretty much every time. You essentially risk 24 to win 30, which is a pretty sick risk/reward ratio.

[@VanCraic]

Hughe improvement!

[@HighStakesPokerReplays]

Great Content As Always

[@ekw555]

more Hugh!

[@paulprochilo4016]

more hugh!

[@jimh396]

Very impressive to beat 200nl after only 2 years in this day in age. I still don’t know about the AK check back in the first hand though.. He can still have QJs, JTs, AQss (maybe random AQ float flop), QT, KdQd,67s, 78s, A7s(Rec on probation), 89hh etc. Sure some of them fold from time to time but people also like to be stationy on low stakes even though it’s probably a substantially underbluffed spot. In terms of boats, QQ might 4b pre and TT may fold turn. So 77 and JJ are the only pure ones. Even JJ is not necessarily excluded from 4B pre or x/r flop. QQ may also x/r flop so further reduced on top of pre. Those are my two cents. /Random YT chat pro. (No seriously though I play above 200 fwiw).

[@ryanonvr2267]

If you think that 'bet big' = strong and 'bet little / check' = weak, then two small bets with AK = I don't have anything/i'm scared + check = Gotta jam vs

[@jeegee-cx7ss]

AK hand is like, at best it's about breakeven... at worst you lose near 100% of the time.

[@tlea31]

this guys good

[@PercySugden02]

More Hugh

[@volivoly]

Hand 2. Some fish don’t ever find 2x river jam, therefore b75 could still be uncapped.

[@gsomethingsomething2658]

_"Look into the eyes, the eyes... not around the eyes..."_

[@slowfuse]

try any of these plays in the micros...

[@TonyDeVries-o4p]

In the first hand, TT seems like an excellent donkjam for villain on that river but I don't think you face that very often here as IP, so I think you can xback a lot more AK than just these suits.

[@8eadsy]

deffs more hugh!

[@FezTheBlockchainDev]

More Hugh!

[@mariocardoso291]

Well I don't deserve the game 🎉 I would Always bet the nut straight Bet folding sometimes if playing against a tight opponent 😂

[@johngriller4997]

Don’t listen to Pete, he just agrees with whatever his guests say without actually looking at the right play from an objective perspective. This is a slam dunk bet, checking back loses 122bb/100! You do deserve to play the game, pete maybe doesn’t 🤷🏼‍♂️

[@AndreasJacobs-nq6sc]

This does not work at low stakes. People don't lay down pocket Pairs. Specially on the AK hand... It does not work. They Will call when they think they have something. That second hand aswell. If I would jam with a 7 they just call with a flush or straight or trips and you're fucked. I love all the theory stuff but honestly this only works on the long run. A lot of these hands barely a winning hand.

[@whereismymind1]

more hugh! and more hugh stakes!

[@merelification]

Peter when you'll show your graph ?

[@highwaymoses]

Fewer Hugh!

[@paulallen3839]

So the point is, we block a lot of the worse hands, meaning we're in danger of putting money into a pot we'll lose?

[@tqetgdgtydsgfas5892]

NL200 in 2 years is insane progress? Hahahahaha you must be kidding

[@guilhermegalvao6381]

Honestly poker is hard as fuck nowadays. Go from NL2 to NL200 in 2 years from zero it's pretty dam impressive.

[@mdpl4622]

challange accepted! I'm winning NL50 player after 6 months of playing the game. My aim is to take shots at NL100 in december when I build my bankroll to 3k. Will see if I can reach NL200 under 2 years To be fair I must admit that poker is my only occupation at the moment (i'm on parental leave :) Guys who helped my game the most: Peter Clarke , Uri Peleg and Elliot Roe (A-game masterclass book)

[@Mike-y4f4f]

Hugh seems like he deserves to play the game